Sushma Swaraj

Sushma Swaraj (14 February 1952-6 August 2019) was a BJP member of the Lok Sabha from South Delhi from 7 May 1996 to 3 October 1999 (succeeding Madan Lal Khurana and preceding Vijay Kumar Malhotra) and from Vidisha from 13 May 2009 to 24 May 2019 (succeeding Rampal Singh and preceding Ramakant Bhargava). She also served as Minister of External Affairs from 26 May 2014 to 30 May 2019, succeeding Salman Khurshid and preceding Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

Biography
Sushma Sharma was born in Ambala Cantt, Haryana, India in 1952, and she became an advocate in the Supreme Court of India in 1973. She became a member of the right-wing student organization ABVP during the 1970s, and she served in the Haryana Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1982 and from 1987 to 1990, and she served as Education Minister of Haryana from 1987 to 1990, becoming the youngest cabinet member in the state's history. In 1990, she was elected to the Rajya Sabha, and she remained there until she was elected to serve in the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2019. In 2014, she became the second woman (after Indira Gandhi) to serve as Foreign Minister of India, and she was rated India's best-loved political by the Wall Street Journal that same year. She retired in 2019 due to her need for a kidney transplant, and she died of cardiac arrest in August 2019 at the age of 67.